Chris Hayes of MSNBC apparently is a big fan of tautology, delivering one of the stupidest lines of recent cable news memory. His studio audience failed to understand the fatuousness of this claim about the Electoral College: “If it wasn’t [sic] in the Constitution specifically for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.” You may not believe me, so I have cued the video embedded below to the moment he utters this meaningless dictum: Now that the Electoral College no longer favors Democrats with the disintegration of the “Blue Wall” of states that Democrats were believed to have a lock on, they suddenly have embarked on a campaign to question its legitimacy.  When Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin in 2016, the Electoral College turned from a Democrat advantage to one favoring the GOP, and that is all you need to know to understand the real basis of the rising chorus of media complaints against it....(Read Full Post)